Welcome to Snow Poppy Yoga!
Your quality of life is of utmost importance.
Meet Jasmin McGee (she/her)...
With a deep belief in her purpose of being in service to Community, she became a professionally trained Yoga guide and instructor as well as a trained and certified Death Doula.
Jasmin is an E-RYT200, RYT500, and YACEP registered through Yoga Alliance. She is also LoveYourBrain Yoga certified. Her offerings are trauma-informed as well as traumatic brain injury (TBI) informed and friendly.
The intention of each Yoga offering is to help facilitate peace for the clients in her care by resting and restoring individually in a customized, private class and/or collectively with community. Classes offered are either local and in-person or virtual via Zoom. The hope is that each person leaving her class feels a sense of empowerment by gifting themselves a moment of rest and restoration to improve their quality of life.
She is also a member of the Veterans Yoga Project Teachers Alliance. It is a great honor for her to have the opportunity to hold space for and offer classes to our Veterans, Active Duty Members of our Military, First Responders, friends, family, supporters, and community as a whole on VYP's Online Studio platform.
She actively collaborates with the Physical Health & Wellness team of the local Wounded Warrior Project in Houston, TX. She brings her skillset as a trauma-informed and TBI-informed Yoga guide to their Physical Health & Wellness Expos as well as other events hosted by WWP.
Jasmin completed her training and received her Professional Certification as a Companion Animal End-of-Life Doula through the University of Vermont. She is also a graduate from the Going with Grace End-Of-Life Training Program and a member of the National End-of-Life Doula Alliance.
Her intention for the End-of-Life Care & Planning offering is to help anyone in community imagine, curate, and prepare with grace a peaceful and easeful passing for themselves, their loved ones, and/or their companion animal. The goal is to offer peace of mind to her client, their family, and loved ones. Jasmin's hope is to help support and encourage individuals and their beloved furry and feathered companions to live their best lives with a sense of freedom and preparedness.
As part of her End-of-Life Care and Planning services, Jasmin is also a commissioned Texas Notary Public and can notarize the documents prepared as part of your Care Plan.
Her hope is to provide community opportunities to find a measure of peace in mind, body, heart, and spirit always and in all ways. This is an 2SLGBTQIA+, BIPOC, and kink affirming ally space.
How Snow Poppy Yoga got its name...
The tenet of Snow Poppy Yoga is Ahimsa - a pathway to bring peace and love to Community.
White-petaled Poppy flowers represent a lasting commitment to peace, non-harm, and non-violence. They are a tangible symbol of Ahimsa - Patanjali's first Yama - the first limb of the 8 Limbs of Yoga.
In addition, Snow Poppy flowers are found in the woodlands of Eastern China.
Yin is one of the styles of Yoga that is a specialty on this platform. Yin is an East Asian influenced form of Yoga, which incorporates the principles of Traditional Chinese Medicine.
Therefore, Snow Poppy flowers became the perfect symbol to represent this platform and offerings and that is how Snow Poppy Yoga got its name.
END-OF-LIFE DOULA
A Death Doula or End-of-Life Doula is a person who is trained to offer comfort, support, and guidance to anyone wishing to get their final affairs in order whether they are healthy OR facing terminal illness and death. The emotional, spiritual, and practical care and services offered are holistic and non-medical. These services are available for the client as well as supporting family members and loved ones.
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YOGA NIDRA
Yoga Nidra is an ancient guided rest practice. It promotes deep rest, healing, and calms the nervous system. In Yoga Nidra, the practitioner is guided to a state between waking and sleeping. The physical and breath body find a sense of balance. The conscious and unconscious mind experiences the deepest levels of bliss and self-awareness. This practice gifts you with a feeling of wholeness, connection, and the awareness of the purest essence of yourself.
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YIN YOGA
Yin Yoga is a quiet, contemplative, slow-paced style of Yoga that builds resilience in the body. It bypasses muscular activation and focuses on the connective tissues of the body - the joints, tendons, and fascia. It incorporates the principles of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). Yin Yoga asks the practitioner to come to the edge of a pose, find stillness, and hold the pose for a set amount of time. This style of Yoga gifts you the space and time to go inward and reflect - to practice interoception.
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RESTORATIVE YOGA
Restorative Yoga is a fully supported, slow-paced practice offering absolute comfort in order for the practitioner to completely relax the body and mind in order to experience deep rest. Each pose is held for an extended period of time requiring no effort from the practitioner once they are settled into the pose. Restorative Yoga is absolutely essential in resetting the nervous system and promotes healing and balance. This practice gifts you the time to find peace in mind, body, heart, and spirit.
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COMPANION ANIMAL DEATH DOULA
A Companion Animal Death Doula is a person who is trained to offer comfort, support, and guidance to individuals facing the loss of their beloved furry or feathered babies and companion animals due to illness or old age. The emotional and practical care and services offered are holistic and non-medical. These services are available for the client, their family members, and the supporting veterinary care team.
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END-OF-LIFE DOULA
A Death Doula or End-of-Life Doula is a person who is trained to offer comfort, support, and guidance to anyone wishing to get their final affairs in order whether they are healthy OR facing terminal illness and death. The emotional, spiritual, and practical care and services offered are holistic and non-medical. These services are available for the client as well as supporting family members and loved ones.
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YOGA NIDRA
Yoga Nidra is an ancient guided rest practice. It promotes deep rest, healing, and calms the nervous system. In Yoga Nidra, the practitioner is guided to a state between waking and sleeping. The physical and breath body find a sense of balance. The conscious and unconscious mind experiences the deepest levels of bliss and self-awareness. This practice gifts you with a feeling of wholeness, connection, and the awareness of the purest essence of yourself.
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YIN YOGA
Yin Yoga is a quiet, contemplative, slow-paced style of Yoga that builds resilience in the body. It bypasses muscular activation and focuses on the connective tissues of the body - the joints, tendons, and fascia. It incorporates the principles of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). Yin Yoga asks the practitioner to come to the edge of a pose, find stillness, and hold the pose for a set amount of time. This style of Yoga gifts you the space and time to go inward and reflect - to practice interoception.
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RESTORATIVE YOGA
Restorative Yoga is a fully supported, slow-paced practice offering absolute comfort in order for the practitioner to completely relax the body and mind in order to experience deep rest. Each pose is held for an extended period of time requiring no effort from the practitioner once they are settled into the pose. Restorative Yoga is absolutely essential in resetting the nervous system and promotes healing and balance. This practice gifts you the time to find peace in mind, body, heart, and spirit.
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COMPANION ANIMAL DEATH DOULA
A Companion Animal Death Doula is a person who is trained to offer comfort, support, and guidance to individuals facing the loss of their beloved furry or feathered babies and companion animals due to illness or old age. The emotional and practical care and services offered are holistic and non-medical. These services are available for the client, their family members, and the supporting veterinary care team.
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END-OF-LIFE DOULA
A Death Doula or End-of-Life Doula is a person who is trained to offer comfort, support, and guidance to anyone wishing to get their final affairs in order whether they are healthy OR facing terminal illness and death. The emotional, spiritual, and practical care and services offered are holistic and non-medical. These services are available for the client as well as supporting family members and loved ones.
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YOGA NIDRA
Yoga Nidra is an ancient guided rest practice. It promotes deep rest, healing, and calms the nervous system. In Yoga Nidra, the practitioner is guided to a state between waking and sleeping. The physical and breath body find a sense of balance. The conscious and unconscious mind experiences the deepest levels of bliss and self-awareness. This practice gifts you with a feeling of wholeness, connection, and the awareness of the purest essence of yourself.
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YIN YOGA
Yin Yoga is a quiet, contemplative, slow-paced style of Yoga that builds resilience in the body. It bypasses muscular activation and focuses on the connective tissues of the body - the joints, tendons, and fascia. It incorporates the principles of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). Yin Yoga asks the practitioner to come to the edge of a pose, find stillness, and hold the pose for a set amount of time. This style of Yoga gifts you the space and time to go inward and reflect - to practice interoception.
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RESTORATIVE YOGA
Restorative Yoga is a fully supported, slow-paced practice offering absolute comfort in order for the practitioner to completely relax the body and mind in order to experience deep rest. Each pose is held for an extended period of time requiring no effort from the practitioner once they are settled into the pose. Restorative Yoga is absolutely essential in resetting the nervous system and promotes healing and balance. This practice gifts you the time to find peace in mind, body, heart, and spirit.
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END-OF-LIFE SUPPORT
My support can include but is not limited to:
-Holding space for and offering respite care, emotional support, and comfort; sitting vigil; and acting as a patient advocate.
-Creating a care plan and a death plan with special considerations for rituals and rites.
-Guidance with Advance Directives, Last Will & Testament, Living Trust, Disposition of Body, and Funeral Arrangements.
-Support with bereavement and burnout.
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COLLECTIVE YOGA PRACTICE
Join Community from near and far to breathe and move as one. Practice virtually via Zoom or in person as a collective and make new friends. Be in learning and expansion together. Check the schedule for virtual and in-person class offerings.
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PRIVATE YOGA PRACTICE
My private practice offering consists of a customized, holistic practice curated just for you in collaboration with you to meet your particular needs. They are by appointment only and can be held virtually from anywhere in the world via Zoom. It is an honor to hold this private space for you as you take the time to reset, rest, and restore yourself.
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SPECIAL EVENTS
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